The Thorny Side of Addiction: Adaptive Plasticity and Dendritic Spines

Dendritic spines are morphologically specialized structures that receive the vast majority of central excitatory synaptic inputs. Studies have implicated changes in the size, shape, and number of dendritic spines in activity-dependent plasticity, and have further demonstrated that spine morphology i...

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Main Authors: Patrick J. Mulholland, L. Judson Chandler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2007-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.247
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